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Alan H. Lessoff <ahlesso@ilstu.edu> Illinois State University Editor, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, www.jgape.org Research projects as of May 2010: Corpus Christi: A City of the South Texas Coast. Revised articles with chapters added. Currently writing. Research completed during sabbatical, fall 2005. American Modernism. Revised conference volume, co-editing with Thomas Welskopp. My chapter: “American Progressivism: Transnational, Modernization, and Americanist Perspectives.” “Usable Pasts: The Historical Thought of Van Wyck Brooks and Lewis Mumford,” articles project possibly leading to monograph. |
| Address: | Department of History Illinois State University Box 4420 Normal, Illinois 61790-4420 United States |
| Primary Phone: | 309-438-8083 |
| Fax Number: | 309-438-5607 |
| Web Page: | http://www.ilstu.edu/~ahlesso |
| List Affiliations: | Advisory Board Member for H-DC Reviewer for H-DC Reviewer for H-Pol Reviewer for H-Survey Reviewer for H-Urban |
| Reviews: | A Useful Tool, but Professors Will Grumble Emancipation and its Aftermath in Charleston Washington on the Potomac, in the Nation, and in the World Artists Against the Cartesian City A Handbook for Washington Historians Building Managers for the Nation's City The Romantic of the Lobby Reconstruction Washington and the Wrecked Promise of American Political Development |
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Bio: Education: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1983-1989, M.A., 1985; Ph.D., 1990 Clare College, Cambridge, England, 1981-83; History Faculty, B.A., 1983 Columbia College, Columbia University, N.Y., 1977-80; Major, History; B.A., 1981 Publications relevant to Washington history: co-editor with Christof Mauch. Adolf Cluss, Architect: From Germany to America. New York & Washington: Berghahn Books & Historical Society of Washington, D.C., 2005. German edition: Adolf Cluss, Revolutionär und Architekt: Von Heilbronn nach Washington. Heilbronn: Stadtarchiv Heilbronn, 2005. The Nation and Its City: Politics, "Corruption," and Progress in Washington, D.C., 1861-1902. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. "Washington, D.C., under Federal Rule, 1871-1945." Berlin-Washington, 1800-2000: Capital Cities, Cultural Representation, and National Identities. Ed. Andreas Daum and Christof Mauch. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 235-62. "Alexander R. Shepherd: The Haussmannization of Washington." The Human Tradition in Urban America. Ed. Roger Biles. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2002. Pp. 53-69. Reprint in The Human Tradition in America, 1865-Present. Ed. Charles Calhoun. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2003. Pp. 29-45. "Gilded Age Washington: Promotional Capital of the Nation." Washington: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Ed. Lothar Hönnighausen and Andreas Falke. Tübingen: Francke Verlag, 1993. Pp. 35-49. "Washington-Berlin, 1871-1945: Nation-State, Capital, and Metropolis," Proteus 20, n. 1 (April 2003), 45-52. "Washington Insider: The Early Career of Charles Moore," Washington History 6, n.2 (Fall/Winter 1994-95), 64-80. |
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